Disk partition help

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Disk partition help!

Mirrored my existing Windows operating drive as it was just a 320gb drive, to a faster hard drive that's also larger and 1tb in size using Macrium Reflect.

All went well but the left over 698gb is currently either unallocated as is (see screenshot), or free space if I make a partition and then delete the new volume.

I have the option to extend the volume of the disks primary partition but it keeps failing as:

First the pop up says that it'll convert the selected basic drive to a dynamic drive and if I do then I will be unable to start the operating systems from any volume on the disk except the current boot volume and if I want to continue. When I say Yes it then gives a new pop up with a large red X on and says 'the operation is not supported by the object.'

I don't want to have 2 drives that I'll get if I make a new simple volume as I have a 2tb storage drive already in there so I want to make the OS drive the full 1tb in size

Doing my head in now as I can't seem to fathom out how to extend the current healthy drive thats 231gb in size larger?

I know the clone was successful as I've taken the old HDD out and put the new one in and it fired up like the old and all was good, identical and no issues so the last piece of the puzzle is getting this space allocated to the disks primary healthy partition?

Can anyone please point me in the direction of where I'm going wrong?!!

Thanks


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You've made a mirrored partition. It does what it says on the box; ie it is an exact copy of the original. You can't extend it.
 
It should be possible with Macrium Reflect. A search of the help sheets should find the answer.
 
I'm not sure if I did it right but I cloned the OS but without that 837mb recovery partition so I could then extend the drive to fill the available space. Its worked and seems happy but I don't have the recovery partition. Should I shrink the OS drive, make a small simple volume and then clone that recovery bit into that?
 
If you want the recovery partition to work as intended, it'll need to be cloned as a recovery partition. If you put it inside a simple volume, your OS (or BIOS) won't see it in a recovery situation.
cardiff_gareth said:
...I cloned the OS but without that 837mb recovery partition so I could then extend the drive to fill the available space.
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Can you do this again, but leave 900Mb/1Gb free at the end, then clone the recovery partition into that free space?
 
Thanks, I think later on I'll shrink the volume and clone the recovery partition into that new 'free' space.

Next job is to research motherboard upgrades. I have 32gb ram but it's DDR2 and the CPU are twin Xeon E5450 @ 3.00GHz so I think upgrading motherboard, ram and CPU's will make me more future proof. The CPU's I have at the moment are not compatible with PS 2021 so I'm still using PS 2020
 
cardiff_gareth said:
Thanks, I think later on I'll shrink the volume and clone the recovery partition into that new 'free' space.

Next job is to research motherboard upgrades. I have 32gb ram but it's DDR2 and the CPU are twin Xeon E5450 @ 3.00GHz so I think upgrading motherboard, ram and CPU's will make me more future proof. The CPU's I have at the moment are not compatible with PS 2021 so I'm still using PS 2020
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If you decide to upgrade I have a pal who needs some ddr2 memory if you decide to split the components
 
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